Ambulance Corps

War is a cruel business. Soldiers get wounded in action and someone has to take care of them.

After the First World War, Germans remembered the millions of wounded soldiers, who fought in trenches at the western front against the Allies and were left dead or wounded on the battlefields. No wonder that the German manufacturers of toy soldiers tried to produce figures which allowed children to replay this part of the war. Hausser and Lineol had a large variety of figures in their production lines of the 7.5 cm scale toy soldiers devoted to this theme.

When a soldier gets wounded on the battlefield, everyone remembers the picture where he is shot, raises his arms, one hand still holding the rifle and gets pushed back from the force of the bullet. Figures which model this typical scene were produced by both companies.

From the experience of the First World War where it was common to use gas as a weapon against the enemy, these models were also produced wearing gasmasks.